Will official holidays lead to a decrease in lactation and affect the quality of breast milk?
The secretion of prolactin will be affected by estrogen level. After menstruation recovery, the rise of estrogen level during menstruation will have a certain impact on lactation. Some mothers may have a decrease in milk volume. However, this effect is usually short-term. After the period, lactation volume will recover.
Moreover, mothers do not need to worry that blood loss during menstruation will affect the quality of breast milk. Normal women lose only 20-60 ml of blood during menstruation, which has little impact on the whole human body. During menstruation, it is enough to pay attention to nutrition (increase the intake of iron-containing food and high-quality protein) and rest.
Does breastfeeding make breasts sagging and smaller?
In fact, it is not breast feeding that makes the chest droop, but pregnancy and gravity.
The breasts of many pregnant mothers begin to grow rapidly from the beginning of pregnancy, which is actually the preparation of the body for lactation. Lactation cells that produce milk multiply, and the mammary glands responsible for transporting milk to the nipples become more developed, thus enlarging the breasts.
After delivery, these lactation cells prepared for lactation will gradually decrease with the decrease of the baby’s demand, and the decrease rate of mothers who do not breast-feed will be faster, so the chest will [shrink] compared with pregnancy, and the original size of the breast cannot be rejected just because it has been enlarged.
Moreover, due to the reduction of internal tissues and the relaxation of breast skin ligaments, the breast will also show [collapse].
Facing breast sagging, can we do what?
Although it is impossible to get rid of the effect of gravity, at least during pregnancy and lactation, these methods can be used to reduce the impact of pregnancy on breasts:
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Reasonable diet during pregnancy, maintain reasonable weight growth, and avoid excessive accumulation of fat.
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Reasonable weight loss after delivery, don’t blindly pursue rapid weight loss.
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Choose a comfortable and supportive breast-feeding bra, which you also need to wear when sleeping.
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Strengthen chest muscle exercise. Simple, such as chest enlargement exercise, more difficult, such as push-ups.
Why is my breast milk as light as water, is thick milk better?
In fact, 88% of the ingredients in breast milk are water. Breast milk not only provides nutrition and energy for the baby, but also provides sufficient water for the growth and development of the baby.
Except that the contents of vitamins A, B and C are greatly affected by diet, most nutrients in breast milk are kept in a constant range. As long as mothers pay attention to a balanced diet and the supplement of these nutrients, the health of the baby will not be affected in any way.
The milk that looks thicker is mainly because some mothers eat foods with high fat content, resulting in a large amount of fat oil drops in the milk secreted, which does not mean that such milk is better.
Anesthetics are required during caesarean section and transfusion is required after caesarean section. Will these factors affect breast milk?
Anesthetics used in cesarean section are mainly concentrated in the nerves near the injection site, and few drugs enter the blood circulation, especially few that can enter milk through the blood-milk barrier. Mothers do not need to worry that anesthetics will affect breast milk.
After cesarean section, antibiotics may need to be used routinely to prevent infection, but drugs with higher safety level and no health hazards to newborn babies are generally used.
Under certain special circumstances, drugs that affect breast-feeding may be used, and the doctor will tell you that you may need to wait for several days before breast-feeding. During this waiting period, pay attention to squeezing out the accumulated milk to maintain the milk quantity.
What if the milk is less and less when the milk pump is used?
The sucking strength of the breast pump is often not as strong as that of the child’s sucking, which can fully empty the milk in the breast tube and effectively stimulate the secretion of milk.
Therefore, the only way to maintain the milk quantity is to maintain and increase the frequency of milk sucking.
Suck it every 3-4 hours during work and let the baby suck it every 2-3 hours when returning home to stimulate milk secretion.
If the amount of milk has decreased, it is necessary to shorten the time interval for emptying milk, for example, to inhale it every 2 hours during work.
As long as we can suck more and empty more, and increase the intake of water at the same time, the milk quantity can certainly be recovered.
Can breast hyperplasia and breast fibroma be breast milk?
Benign hyperplasia of mammary glands and fibroma of mammary glands will not have any substantial impact on the quality of breast milk.
Breastfeeding can inhibit estrogen secretion, which is actually helpful to the recovery of hyperplasia of mammary glands and fibroma of mammary glands.
Of course, if you find that your illness is serious during lactation and the doctor recommends you to treat it immediately, you will have to give up your love with pain at this time.
Does the child need to eat milk when he is over one year old? Does nursing after the age of 1 affect the child’s eating?
The Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents 2016 suggest that the milk volume of children aged 13-24 months should be kept at about 500 ml (equivalent to 3-4 times of breast milk per day), and children aged 2-5 years should consume 300-400 ml of milk or a considerable amount of dairy products (yogurt, cheese, etc.) every day.
It can be said that people need to eat milk for life. Even if you don’t eat breast milk, you also need to drink milk, yogurt and other dairy products to ensure nutrition.
The World Health Organization suggests that breast-feeding should continue until the child is 2 years old. If both mother and child have the will after 2 years old, breast-feeding can continue.
Therefore, you can still continue to breastfeed after the age of 1. As long as the feeding method is proper, feeding will not affect eating.
However, it should be noted that after the age of 1, the time for eating milk and eating should be separated. Food is the main food, supplemented by milk (in the form of extra meals between meals).
Milk only provides 30% of the daily energy demand after the age of 1. Breast milk can be used 3-4 times a day.
What if children are too attached to breast milk and do not eat?
In this case, the feeding method must be checked first.
Is it breastfeeding too many times? Breast milk is too close to eating time. Is the baby not hungry after eating breast milk? Or can the taste, form and appearance of the food not arouse children’s interest? Is it sporadic unwillingness to eat or long-term unwillingness to eat?
If you solve these problems, the child still needs to eat milk and not eat, and there is no need to cut off breast milk in a hurry, you can try to choose when the child is in a good mood and squeeze out the milk for other caregivers to feed with cups and spoons. After the milk is finished, let the mother play with the child to separate breast milk consumption from the mother’s emotional comfort.
Is it better to wean your baby in what? Can the baby be weaned without eating?
If the baby is unwilling to eat, it is naturally the best time to wean.
However, generally speaking, babies are not willing to wean voluntarily before the age of one. If the baby is weaned voluntarily before the age of one, there is often a problem in the feeding process.
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- Is it that the number of breast-feeding times has been greatly reduced, resulting in a decrease in milk secretion, thus the baby cannot eat enough milk? Add too many supplementary foods with too much taste to the baby, Babies are fed full at any time, naturally also not interested in breast milk. You know, supplementary food, as the name implies, is [auxiliary diet], before one year old, the baby’s diet should be based on milk. When the baby is tired of milk, he begins to care more about other things, playing and making noises, and forgets to eat milk? Feed breast milk with bottles and straw cups. The baby eats too easily, so he is too lazy to suck his nipples?
If conditions really do not permit, it is best to ensure that 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding have been met before weaning.
How should natural lactation be done?
Before you are ready to wean, you need to prepare a formula powder suitable for your baby in advance, which will not cause allergy and the baby can accept its taste.
If the baby is over one year old, you can directly try to replace breast milk with whole milk.
First of all, choose to turn the most easily replaced breast milk meal of the day into formula powder or milk. The most easily replaced condition is that the baby’s dependence on this meal of milk is not so strong, and the mother’s failure to feed this meal will not cause excessive milk inflation.
Generally speaking, babies are more dependent on milk before getting up and going to bed, so they can usually choose the afternoon meal to replace it.
After a few days, both mother and child adapt to this change and can reduce breast feeding again. Through this step-by-step method, breast milk is gradually cut off.
Even if an unexpected situation requires rapid weaning, it is recommended to speed up the process of replacing breast milk with formula milk or milk, and the traditional sudden forced weaning is not recommended. This method will not only hurt the feelings of both mother and child, but also cause breast pain due to excessive milk expansion.
Do you want to discharge residual milk after weaning?
After weaning, there is no need to expel residual milk. As long as there is no breast distending pain, try not to squeeze, [squeezing] will stimulate the breast to secrete milk again.
Milk itself can secrete a polypeptide inhibitor. If a large amount of milk remains in the breast, the inhibitor will inhibit lactation cells from secreting milk. This self-protection mechanism can protect the breast from damage caused by excessive filling.
Moreover, the milk remaining in the breast will eventually be absorbed and returned to our internal circulation system. Therefore, the residual milk itself is a part of our body fluids and is not a toxin rumored to need to be eliminated. At this stage, there is no evidence to prove that non-excretion of residual milk will cause breast hyperplasia, fibrocyst, breast cancer and other diseases.
If the slow and gradual weaning method of natural weaning is adopted, as long as there is no discomfort, wait for natural milk return. [Squeezing] will stimulate the breast to secrete milk again.
If you need to wean quickly and have breast pain and lump, you can squeeze out some milk after hot compress and then cold compress to relieve the pain.
If you no longer need to breast-feed your baby during weaning, you can ask your doctor to prescribe some drugs to inhibit lactation to help you return milk.
Can neonatal jaundice be fed glucose water? Does the baby need to suspend breast milk due to jaundice?
General physiological jaundice does not need to suspend breast milk, but needs to increase the number of times of breast feeding to promote excretion to help reduce yellow.
Glucose water does not help to relieve yellowing. When the baby is full of sugar water, he will eat less breast milk and even not eat milk, which will aggravate jaundice.
Even breast-milk jaundice, as long as the jaundice level is not high, breast-feeding can continue.
If the jaundice level is high and needs treatment, blue light irradiation is the first choice, and sun exposure, oral administration of Yinzhihuang and some folk remedies are not recommended, which is not only useless but also harmful.
Do you want to avoid some folklore about returning milk food during breastfeeding?
There are too many milk-returning foods in folklore, but most of them are handed down by word of mouth according to personal experience, and none of them has been verified by scientific experiments to have milk-returning effect.
For example, folklore maltose, monosodium glutamate, hawthorn, prickly ash, mushroom, eggplant, grapefruit, lotus root, chocolate, oatmeal, ham, fried malt, maltodextrin, etc., in short, each has its own statement.
As far as ingredients are concerned, there are no ingredients in these foods that will affect milk secretion. For example, maltose, its ingredient is sugar, which is just a substance that simply supplies energy for the human body. It obviously doesn’t make sense to say that sugar will cause milk return, and other foods are similar.
Therefore, as long as you pay attention to balanced nutrition and neither you nor your baby are allergic to this kind of food, there is no need to deliberately avoid it.
For nursing mothers, it is more important to ensure a balanced diet and nutrition, so as to protect the baby’s health.